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Sep 13 2007, 12:29 AM EDT Respond to the following questions after reading journals, articles or studies. Responses should be written in short paragraphs referring to, or citing information/data the article presents. Source of Article: NY Times Title: You, Your Friends, Your Friends of Friends Date: August 5th, 2007 (1) What new information did you learn? The new information that i learned from this was that not only are friends influential in smoking, or drink. They can also be influential in eating. Obesity spreads from friends to friends. If one person sees their friends eating more, they tend to do the same. Also, depression spreads from friend to friend (2) What is your opinion of the research processes? Is it ethical or exploitive? What are the weaknesses and biases to the research? I enjoyed reading this article because i feel it is partly true. The weakness is that this case was probably only tested on Americans. Maybe in different cultures the case might be different. That makes this article a bit bias. It could also just be for certain cities. Maybe instead of Ney York doing this project, maybe Kansas could do it and see if there is a difference. (3) What further research could be conducted in this area? The further reasearch i would conduct would be to test different countries and different cities in American and study the data to see the differences. Maybe in different countries it would be the complete opposite and if so why? (4) How does this information relate to you? Do you find this valuable? |
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